Fathers is executive vice president and general manager of cloud services at VMware; he’ll leave the company next week. Previously he served as president of Savvis, a hosting company that CenturyLink bought for $2.5 billion in 2011.

Fathers leaves VMware as the company’s cloud efforts seem to be somewhat stagnant in the market. A once ambitious project to build a public cloud, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger announced late last year that instead the company would focus on core use cases for its cloud, including extending of data center options into the public cloud; replacing data center workloads in the public cloud; and disaster recovery. VMware has partnerships with both Google and IBM in the public cloud as well. “VMware is committed to our cloud service and committed to helping customers extend their private cloud into the public cloud,” a VMware spokesperson said in a statement.

Laura Ortman, VP of Sales and Customer Success, and Allwyn Sequiera, VP and GM of vCloud Air will jointly lead the vCloud Air organization as co-General Managers and report directly to Gelsinger.